Dean Koontz Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.

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  Stars, Silly, Who I Am

• No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.

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  Relationship, Dog, Betrayal

• The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

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  Laughter, Giving, Laughing

• Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.

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  True Friend, Fun, Sacrifice

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Seize the Night”, p.63, Hachette UK

• In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

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  Night, Light, Giving

• The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest. We carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope.

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  Sacrifice, Animal, Self

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.210, Bantam

• If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.

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  Grateful, People, Giving

  Dean Koontz (1999). “Seize the Night”, Bantam

• If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

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  Struggle, Writing, People

• Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

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  Dog, Loss, Giving

• None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

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  Light, Giving, Darkness

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.680, Bantam

• I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

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  Book, People, Giving

• Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.

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  Writing, Games, Smell

• What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.

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  Wisdom, Believe, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.192, Bantam

• ...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

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  Keys, Giving, Mind

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.72, Bantam

• All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.

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  Girl, Thinking, Giving

  Dean Koontz (2010). “What the Night Knows (with bonus novella Darkness Under the Sun): A Novel”, p.70, Bantam

• Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

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  Courage, Giving, Desire

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.50, Bantam

• I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass.

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  Mother, Mean, Kids

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.407, Bantam

• The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart.

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  Depressing, Clever, Smart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel”, p.552, Bantam

• I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

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  Giving, Answers, Life Is

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

• The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

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  Pain, Giving, Humanity

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.331, Bantam

• Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

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  Pain, Humility, Men

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.331, Bantam

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